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R". _ The Palmetto Leader !m Published Weekly By- l^j !v ^ The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. 1. B: LEWIE .?.-...z??President j tr 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET Q] jir ' r r~T- COLUMBIA, "B. e, - - & at the Post Office~at ^ohim^jic TELEPHONE 4523 e( ?r^ ^-z?1 ? I e< N. J. FREDERICK^ , ^Editor!,-?-W. FRANK WILLIAMS -"ih Contributing Editor HENRY D. PEARSON ICity Editor ?3 GEO. H. HAMPTON, ____~Manager J -r?? - ? ? ? rO : SUBSCRIPTION RATE&i _lj % CASH IN APVANCE. |fl . rear. ? STi Muitllia? 1. Three ^Months ?. >*76 L . Single Copy.. _1" .05 r Advertising Rates given oh appli-1 gi cation. r E ~ 1 ~"4s Saturday, May 9, 1925. i - ri The coming" term of the Greenville Circuit Court can-welF? lue called the "Murder Session." t) Twenty-six men and women a-' e' _ wait trial for the killing of their f fellowmen. : ~ |"j L :'' ; * * * * ' ' Negro Trade - Week. Have^ " ^ you made it arbusiness to spend /.- something-with some .coiomt? _T man or woman? If not, youj^ ?i don't belong, you are simply : _ there and can't help yourself. jv ' - ? e e ~\e Vaccination is now the fashion s; in ' Washington. Because of quite, a few cases of small pox, the health authorities are in- c aisting on vaccination. - Presi-[^ " f CnnlirlVyA n (1 u^nu anu uLIici piumi-l* ??nfitit personages were among * the first to take the precaution.: t _ -- | ftppording trr report <sf~ *W'a National Bureau "oF> Casualty 6 and Surety Underwriters, 19,- t< :Ji 000 deaths were caused by auto-,Si mobile Occidents last year. * while 450,00(1 wjere-inJnredT? reckless persoplias no right to e ?. ? be entrusted with an automobile, and one who takes a drink b t before starting j>ut on a drive i11 Is a potential criminal,?even S === though lie dues not becoma-one-0' . ~ in reality. <? . . .19 " , - -1 ? Negro education sefems to be t) $ ,v coming into* its own. Within b il. - i - i -i ? ? * ' me last six montns more money i has been contributed J}or this '1 ^iiT-^^purposebyphilanihropista-^han?h any other_period since Emanci- g p&tion. Besides, the_ States o that-Jmv?-Jbeen. denying him a a decent appropriation from taxes J have decided on a more lustTa policy and are ?rovidirig more i] "'money. .We must not forget 0 however, that the corresponding a ' duty of seeing te-it that-there v k be greater usefulness and whole- a some development rest upon usl^ ? as a consequence thereof. jo - ? -? t Mn p~ " Just when will our Southern u statesmen be able to consider b ^ .questions on their merits^ffiey^ ??are so busy with*?their?eyesa L .squinted on the Negro,lhat noth- jp ing very able ever come from; a them. While people everywhere ? pIrp pro rliapiisaimr +V10 nVinnrn'm.. ? MA V V44UVUUU1415 tllU ^iiail^lllg U of~tlie Senate rules in reference. o to the effect it would have on'o the trmnsactionof business, Senator Pat Harrison, of-Mississip- t 1 pi can only see it as effecting j a the colored citizens. Some so- n called statesmen must undoubt- v edly thank God, morning, noonh and night that America is peo-ia pled partly by black people. |2Ej THE CHICAGO DEFENDER'S t TROUBLE. i Some of the newspapers seem to think that the trouble recently discovered among the employaoo of The Chicago Defender is v but retribution for the practise rn of that paper of publishing ev 8- erything sensational, true or un- f i that view however, we are not | n in accord. The Defender is notlr |p!-lmmune agafhaT dtehoncsty on t Wgfc, the part oTTia^employ ees any t * * * * "He ? ore than any other employer, he saddest part about the sorid affair is that the very men ho had helped this paper to le prosperity and power thaU ndoubtedly it enjays, -are the nes that were secretly and dism^f^Hy liTnri^rrritntnp tt What.,:, ver might be said about the pol:y of the paper* it must hegjyn to R. S. Ahbott. he has build-' d better than any other color-, d man im journalism,^ To be^ et rayed as he was by the men e trusted and had given ahance to make good in asphere et somewhat" duobtful among ur people, is cruel to say the ;ast. Well thinking men?un-. nprirfrt by envy?must, sympa^ !iize Willi Mr. Abbott. " ^ ~ -^4 "SOUTHERN MEMORIES." "Under the above, caption, with ub-titfe, of "Sidelights on the ? T> ui ?> 1 i-aee jriuuiem, v appears in cribner's Magazine for May" uite an interesting study of the ace question by an Americansed Frenchman, Albert Guerrd. Aside fron^.. theapolegetic^ Dne that most writers of Southrn conditions: seem to think iscqssions, a-nd the too frequent se of the word "nigger" and darkies," the article is a rather leasing and keqn analytical exosition of condTtions as they1 re known by intelligent minds, -Thite and black. Of course, ne cannot agree with all'that-hr aid, as, for *an instance, when he writer can find any^ grounds or the exclusion of the colored itizens, wholesale or retail, rom the, suttrageT~imAnahner" iffering from the exclusion of ny other part of the citizenry. Tie r wfroie~ troublerJJie writer hinks, is "class-feeling, pure nd simple," nothing but "snob-; lshnesfll1' "This londitioiT snsified by "soci&l difference"ays the writer, without which he problem -Avould not be so irulen't in^ts character.' -Howver, Mr. Guerardjias hope that here~will bear xhange for the efter because of his "confidence. 1 the 'Americanism' of the outh."?Closing his?splendid tudy he says, "If Americanism oes mean common sense, and^ air play, then the people who oasts the purest American lcod cannot help reverting to he ideal of^ tijteir country. . 'he Southerners are gentlemen: j?KORUMd thcni To -app^y tlift entlemenlv code and thp. spirit f chivalry between the races le. They know~that bragging nd brutal assertrveriess. in the ndividual are the surest tokens f vulgarity. A man who acted s a man in the same way j^s_ re systematically act as a racer nd as we too often act as a na:on, Avould be bunted af~noce ut of polite society." And fially, he enchtAvltfr what must ndouhtedly be in the mind and leart of every fair-minded in-^ GlligehtTpcfaon: """"""The?Negro mong lis is also aneter&nl reroarh . We owe it, not to him ^one, but to our own conscience, o efface the last consequences f-the ancient slave, trade.^--W? we it above all to-the spirit of ur ancestors. They were repnnsible for- the cursetand unil we have ttirnrrrttbe'pTTF?A TnfA > pleasing, the stain on their nemory will not be washed a^ay." " "The greatest drawback to this rticle is that it appears in cribner's, a magazine which is he very sectiorr for whose beneit it is written. o " A DOLLAR DOWN." A dollar down and a dollar yheri you catth him, as the" riethod of buying what you haven't money to pay for is acetiousiy expressed, is playing lavoc. A fuw years ago, this nethod of doing business wa lot heard of, certainly not in bailiwick, Aa carried on. oday all over this country, it is { 4 r - THBlTAtW a vicious syst^in. maki more liars, thieves, cheats a other such -similar animals th any other business system tl is passing as legitimate. F one to go-in debt for the pi chase of some things is gc spnsp?llkp hnyirig a homo^a an instance. But this thing buying clothes and some otl things that eeuld. easily be dc without is playing havoc w: the real happiness and welfj of the people^ Too many pi pTe as a result of the ere houses are way beyond th means; extravagance has r wild. With easy credit, it tal a very sensible person to de himself things that his distort fancyurgcs himTo buy untrh has earned the " money wi whteh"to-pay for it. There i altogether too many people 1 ing next week for this one. there is a more miserable, a discnstmff rhfli'flpt.pr tVinri r> who owes everybody, it woi be ihteresttng to see him. Su a person can make more pro ises^in day t.hnn ha ran p, form in a year.-^-and all t time he know^Jtje is lying. Bj xing -misfortune,?the man w is heels over head in debt, there because there is_ a seric defect in his character. He either too lazy to earn- sufficic lt5r~his needs; Or he has not se control enough to deny hiitfis ^things he fancies until he h carncd the nfice or at.heartis dishonest or* all of these m be combined. These credit houses, inste of being a blessing, are a cui in more Ways than one! I time to- ease up on the dol down proposition and many o' ~er things~that lead to extra1 gance. If you haven't tlie-pri da-without. * : | . NEGRO POLK li SONGS. ^ BY JEAN JEW. i Negro folk songs ha-ve be considered, for long, a rnfp~a original type among that ck of music called folk songs. k The local color, given them the' strcmge- pronunciation words, description of the s ting in which the fftain peo live, and the odd ehnntii serves to stagip them &3 f< songs. - Only the plain people can c -ate--foik-songs?sonfeu which* theyoutburst of a isoul in "joy in-sorrow?such joy and sorr as come to those in lowly s tions. .. ...... ; Every attempt then to char. "the original nature of folk sot in whatever respect, is a si It is but common knowlec that. every rising sun obsen a change nTthe originatirteriT of Negro folk songs. And it fs-daubtful irChose s? pie, people, who in the dark-dt found so much relief and he in TR P1I* SOnffQ wmilrl X their own creation could th hear the-present rendition those quaint musical expr -mons.-?-*-r??-* t~ L .91!.^ hears^pretty Ir songs,- rich in their uncomir appeal, but they never res the perfection of the lore sor if deprived of that soft blarr of the Irish common folk. ; , It is the same with all otl folk songs?Russian, Germ ^rench, Armenian, Negro. Si songs may go through "a proo j of refinement, or other cultu ! developments, but they cam 'be called true folk songs, change them and maintain th i n rt4- 1#4.V\/%1 i f~* ?t vk u ^ ?- XT? ? iu'uui iu uinuu tu trie cr ' tors of them. Those , people could not si i their songs as they are bei .suing today. They ?fe not sn cient to tell the- feeling of 1 . oppressed. ^ ^ The new setting, with si ^wFords as ham pronoun* "harm;'' hand pronoun* . . I ' ?' , lETTO LEADER rig "horned," stand pronounced ? ,nd "starned," may be Negro songs tan but not true Negra folk songsr^ lat <or MOTHER'S DAY ir-uj LI ?ILL-? l0(j. To have one day in each year For;-*8* ?nrtiM 11 rfimindor nf=? 0? - great maternal love that no one ? ier-else except our mothers could be- ^ >ne stow shmiM DrlnglLa happy X ith bought to every one. This day ^ should be observed by all as a 0 B0_ tribute to the one who has con^"fributed so much to our happi- ** ejr|ness, the true love of a mother. 0 unEaciryeaythe presideht^ssues^^1 ces a proclamation setting aside theL ny-second Sunday frr May as the day ^ Pfl to revere the memory of moth-;^ ers who have passedon and to;h pay-homage to the mothers who Ci ? a v?h liwiwrv T4- ?4 1... ? ?*! ???* 1? ? ire """8- ii ia Liie general cus-|" v_ torn for those of us whose moth-|z< ers are living to wear red car- je! ^nations and for those who have ^ ng : lost their mothers to wear wfyite 0 ^ carnations iiTher memory. s ,^1 ATtribute "To My Mother" by ^ m. the great Edgar "AI?en"Foe should ^ Br express 'the real love and feeling that we ought have for our4e ar_ mothers.. .. One verse carries the ^ ^0TfoUowing thought,- ^ jg r~> "In the heavens above, ^ IUS^ The Angels, whispering to one ? jar another^ ~T~7~' - - 'f5 jnt'Can find, their burning terms of ^ llf:!, - ^love, ^ '' '! " ? ej? None so_dey,otional as that of las! 'mother'." ' ? ?How many timeo have we1^ ay paused for a few moments to,C i think back to our childhood days 11 ,acj and recall the many things our|\v .se mothers would do to stop our = lar brighter for us to iixe 4m - j ti hh i "Who ran to help me when I b TTi Tell. va- , ' Anc^ would some pretty jitory _ ii ' tell, .? Or kiss the place to make it >t >', _ well^ -,?: ZM. _ ^ mother." jBj No doubt most -of .us. have S heard that-old song, "Just Break jy 8.1 the News to Mother." Her boy! a 8 was wounded on the battle field q oaa and even though he was dying -en he sent a loving message to his n nd j mother. He did not forget herj0 and we should never forget our.s (mothers for there is no one on'a by (earth ths?t thinks, or cares?fori^ of us like our mothers, et-i H. D. PEARSON, ]* pie I ^ lg Paul Robeson and Law- e ilk rence Brown Srnrp N. v. Y. Success with s a re_ " Negro Songs. f sre^ ? - - ? - ? ? j or (By N. A. A'. C. P. Press. Serried): oPaul Robeson, star of Eugene :c ta- O'Neil's "Emporer Jones".7and,_ "All God's Chillun," who gave ? ige a recital of Negro spirituals and ^ igs, secular songs -together?willijt :ep-iEawrence Brown, young colored ij ~[coYrTposer~and'. singer, has scored! ^ Ige.such a success that the Green-! .res I wirh Village Theatre hha an-; lty nouhced a" second recital, for | ^ jMay .??rr|, trt the J m- demand to hear thcao singers. ^-4f iys | Atfthe first recital, on Sunday,^ >pe Anril 1^, the rmtira hnurn nrml^ ize sold out, including standing, ley room, and many late comers hadjP of to be turned away/ ?jJl ea- The program was - composed ~ jbntirely'oi; Negro songs, some of ? ion who, in^additioh ?o singing^with ich Mr. Robeson, played the accom-'g igs!paniments on "the piano. ! t ley In comment upon the first re-J cital, the music critic of the New i ler York Evening Post declared: Tjj an, | "An audience that taxed thei'i ich capacity of the theatre heard j ess Mr. Robeson sing and received ral his offerings with great enthu-;3 lot siasm. He was generous with 3 To his encores. Assisting him was '3 eir Lawrence Brown, who played his 14 ea-U^eumpanlments perfectly and sang in sever&h of the .spirituals i . I - f-4 mg which called for two voices. Is "lilr. Robeson's voice is a lus-jj ff'Uious, mellow^ boss baidtone. Hef^ :he [ ;-ir: .:_x, A w H aciriiuaia_As. lew interpret ich ters of those beautiful and mov- Ijj :ed'i*ig folk-songs have ?uiig them { jetfjifl fcfew York." < ff EDITOR OF ATLANT. WILL SPEAI Editor Benjamin J. Davis of 'he Atla>nta Independent will peak in' Asheville June 15 on lace Newspapers and their Deelop merit. Mr. Davis is presient of the National Negro tess"Association of imerica's greatest writers and rators. He is noted for conemning the wrong and prpt&t1 g the right. He has been head f the-Odd Fellows in Georgia Tr a number of~years.? As a writer and an orator, he 5 fearless and intrepid?he is Georgia's spokesman. The world as wondered- how Mr. Savis r Georgia, but- the white citi?r<n /?#. 1 11_ 1 1 ciio ujl ?jeun?i<o nave me nignst respect for him, especially hose in Atlanta. He is also one f the wealthiest Negroes in the fate of Ueorgia. His palatial welling is on% Qf the most artstic in the South. In addition to Mr. Davis, othr speakers who will appear on his program are: Editors W. L. orter of The East Tennessee Tews, Knoxville, Tenn., J. A. bach of the Recorder-IndiitofTColumbia, S. C., and ^N. J. rederick of The Palmetto Lea* er, Columbia^ S. C. The coming of these distingished educators Ts an honor tc .shoville and allwesterri -Ntrrtii aroliija. The Asheville sumler school foir colored teachers . ? ? rill bejn session at this time and Critics of the other metropolian dailies were equally favors Ie in their eomment. Colored Show Saiiing t To Germany. * ~ By J. A. (Billboard) Jacksotrr (By The Associated Negro Press.) New York, N. Y., May.?Or lay B7 Arthur Lyons, vaudeville gent, will sail on - the White itar Line S. S. Arabic for Gerlany t&king with him a-grouj ?~36 Negro performers and mu< iciatis who will open in o-revut t the Admirla Palace, Berlin lorris uest is the promoter oi he engagement which is foi welve weeks with an option or ight weeks more. The troupe ^-scheduled to travel first clasi nd reservations have been made or them at the Central hotel ii terfiiir????^ "Greenlee Ann lirayfcoii, Lottie Jee, late prima donna of Choclate Dandies, the-Three Eddies largaret Simms, Boby and Baj Joins, A1 Tfroore, Adelaide Hall George Stetson, Ruth 5 Cherry ?.la Branch, Allegretta Endorsoi larie Bushel, Thelma WatWns %elma Green, Bobby Vincent ia .Jones, and Sam Woodings rchestra of 12 pieces are the eople who make up the Compa y that will sail 1 Eleventh Annua mIV Vllill 4^M?1UU ' ~ OF I STATE C JUNE 15, to . : Authorized by the State f Elementary Hiirh Si cational courses lc certificates an Five Weeks Sessi _ . ... TF Entrance Fee t-Lahoraf.nffi Faa for ?ach4w$ For further information, adrl I - > R. S. WI * T ^ 1 SfttttFdfly? May 1925i \ INDEPENDENT ? ^ C IN ASHEVILLE JI. C. I these gentlemen will have an op- j portunity to send a personal message to our people thru intelligent representatives from differnY sections of"YHIs^YaYe"flLK3""oYher states?This will be a. rare opportunity for the Asheville Bummer school to hear these gentlemen and to meet them personally. The Asheville summer school .Ihptrins .Tnnp 10th and a,11 nnr i for this "important meeting. Th<L . ; Ministerial Union, Fraternal or[ ders, professional and business . to visit the Land ofthe Sky. HON. SEYMOUR CARROLL AND EDITOR J. D. CARR TO SPEAK JOINTLY. ( Winston-Salem High School AuI ditorldm, May 17, at 3i00 P.M. Hon. Seymour Carroll, Field' Secretary of the American Hu- _. r ...mane Education Society of Bos ; ton, and J. D. Carr, editor of The Asheville Enterprise, will speult ^ . in Winston-Salem, May 17, at , 3:00 P. M., at the 14th Street' High School auditorium. Neith- ' , er needs_ &n introduction?you r~ ' know them. They are going ? there under the auspices of the | North Carolina Grand CommandL ery?of Sons and Daughters of . I Peace. Winstcm-Salem is manii |festing every effort to make this [ ] a great success. White Wom^n Crosses < _ London, England, May.?Mrs. ~ Delia J. Ackley. of New Vnrir, the first white woirp" tn attempt? to cross the heart of Africa unaccompanied by* a white man has completed part of her jour-^ 1 ncy having traversed the Somali * desert. Mrs. Ackley in her first w L message sent back to-- civiliza* tion reports that she has been > treated with the utmost cour. tesy by the nativea with whom _ haa f,f>rriA in ^ontnrt and who i_=^ l_ar& her guides and travelling ' companions.-- The trip which is ^ being made under the auspices L * of the Brooklyn Museum of Arts i and Sciences is proving itself J productive of many rare skins r and animaLlife specimens which she is sending- to America by ' way of London. 1 M\ m " jCLOSINQl- EXERCISES-- OE^ I RPHnni^AT rPATMl? CREEK ' Closing Exercises of Pilgrim . ' r school were had on Mav 18th,, 1925." , With Mrs. Catherine E. Hol( man as teacher we had quite a Y success on the whole.. The child ~ ren were well trained. The ^ tomime and drill were-fine. To much praise cannot be given to r the teacher, Mrs Holm an, fnr s the good work rendered" in our school room ar^l community. We [need more teaclieia uf her type. w?&o&a&a^^ .1 Summer Session?| Tlit .1 ~ ~ * College 4? JULY 18,1925r ? Department of Education., ; \ 1_ chool, College and Vo- 3; fading to renewal of J ? d college credits. <;? ' # - | ion?Six Days Each :: :rms '- j Li-. rr~rzr:_J_ '$ 3.00 * % 80.00 I. ? afigfoT Subjggt _^?trSO % ?? iress % LKINSON, President. ?... - it -... ' Orangeburg, S. C. j >. ?: . \ ? .... -?i ' 3moess???sc8ss?3m?3383mca8X8sa -4'? , :. 1 J ? / _